Reading the nineteenth-century novel : Austen to Eliot

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Reading the nineteenth-century novel : Austen to Eliot

Alison Case and Harry E. Shaw

(Reading the novel / general editor, Daniel R. Schwarz)

Blackwell Pub., 2008

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  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

This text offers students and teachers a close analysis of nineteenth-century novels by ten major authors: Austen, Eliot, Scott, Thackeray, Gaskell, Dickens, Trollope, Braddon, and the Bronte sisters. * Examines a wide range of nineteenth-century novels - Persuasion, Middlemarch, The Heart of Midlothian, Vanity Fair, Mary Barton, Bleak House, The Warden, Wuthering Heights, and Jane Eyre * Explores significant theoretical approaches such as Foucauldian, Postcolonial, Bakhtinian, and feminist criticism * Employs an "appreciative" model of criticism, sparking a renewed interest in engaging with Victorian aesthetics on its own terms * Offers an overview of the social, economic, and political change that influenced the fiction of the time

Table of Contents

Introduction. 1. Pride and Prejudice and Persuasion. 2. Waverley. 3. Wuthering Heights. 4. Jane Eyre. 5. Vanity Fair. 6. Mary Barton. 7. Bleak House. 8. The Warden and Barchester Towers. 9. Lady Audley's Secret. 10. Middlemarch. Appendix: Free Indirect Discourse. Notes. Further Reading. Index

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